Responding to the threat of global warming: Options for the Pacific and Asia

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:6712493

Streets, D G; Siddiqi, T A ^[1]

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In June 1989, Argonne National Laboratory and the Environment and Policy Institute of the East-West Center jointly sponsored a workshop that was held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The primary goal of the workshop was to explore the options that the countries of the Pacific and Asia have for dealing with the threat of global warming. The countries of the Pacific and Asia must address a variety of issues related to global warming, ranging from determining the advisability of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to assessing the vulnerability of various communities to the consequences of climate change only adds to the many other important health and socioeconomic problems they must face. The goal of this workshop was to bring together policy makers, scientists, and analysts who are concerned about the issue of climate change in this region so they could begin to develop information that will help decision makers formulate rational policy alternatives. Four principal areas of discussion were addressed in the workshop: the current state of knowledge about global climate change and its likely consequences; energy policy options for slowing the expected growth in emissions of greenhouse gases; mitigation measures to cope with the impacts (including impacts related to agriculture and sea-level rise), should they occur, and research needs to assist decision makers in the Pacific and Asia. This volume compiles the proceedings of the workshop. The invited and contributed papers included here are in the form in which they were submitted to the meeting. This volume contains 37 papers. Individual papers are indexed separately on the energy database.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/EH
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6712493
• Report Number(s): ANL/EAIS/TM-17; CONF-8906244-; ON: DE90014756
• Resource Relation: Conference: Responding to the threat of global warming: options for the Pacific and Asia, Honolulu, HI (USA), 21-27 Jun 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GREENHOUSE EFFECT
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GLOBAL ASPECTS
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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NITROUS OXIDE
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VARIATIONS
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HYDROCARBONS
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